Our Location
For over 50 years, BOSS has operated in the wilds surrounding Boulder, Utah (Not Boulder, Colorado)—over a million acres of some of the most remote and diverse landscapes in the U.S.
Our course areas stretch across the iconic Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and the Dixie and Fishlake National Forests. From the depths of desert canyons to the heights of alpine meadows, you’ll experience the dramatic shifts in scenery and challenge that define the BOSS experience.
Two Unique Ecosystems
Depending on the season and the specifics of your course, you will experience at least one of two distinct ecosystems.
Boulder Mountain, an extinct volcano, rises over 11,000 feet, towering above the desert below. The high alpine meadows, cold lakes, and spruce-fir forests on the summit offer a stark contrast to the sun-scorched sandstone and piñon-juniper forests at its base. This mountain generates its own weather, and students often pass through multiple forest zones, from aspen groves to ponderosa pine, in a single day.
In the desert, the winding canyons and rugged escarpments of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument provide a completely different challenge. This part of the landscape was among the last regions in the lower 48 states to be mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey due to its remote and difficult terrain. Here, courses navigate hoodoo fields, white sandstone moonscapes, and sandy washes, often without encountering another human for miles.
Getting to BOSS
615 North Highway 12 Boulder, Utah 84716
Where Is Boulder Utah? Be warned: some online map services and car GPS systems don’t think our address exists. Here’s our location in Google Maps. Our coordinates are Lat: 37.914119° Long: -111.424423°.
All courses start at noon on Sundays and end at noon on Saturdays. The closest and most convenient airport is Salt Lake City, Utah (SLC). BOSS provides a shuttle service from the the Holiday Inn and Suites Salt Lake City Airport West to Boulder for the morning your course begins. Because Salt Lake City is 4 – 5 hours by car from BOSS, we ask that students fly into Salt Lake the day before the course starts–i.e., Saturday–and spend the night at a hotel near the airport.
For the return trip, we suggest you fly out of Salt Lake on Sunday morning – the day after the course ends. Flying out of Utah a day later will give you time after the course ends for the 4 – 5 hour drive (or shuttle) back to Salt Lake City, where you’ll have a chance to shower, eat dinner with your course mates, and sleep.
If you prefer to drive, as you enter Boulder Town from the north on Highway 12, our driveway entrance is the first right after you cross the cattle guard.
If you’re coming from the south on Highway 12, when you pass the Anasazi State Park Museum (on the right), you’ll see a long, dry-stacked stone wall on the left. The second entry in the wall leads to the BOSS property.